LATEST HOMILY
5th SUNDAY of EASTER
May 3, 2026

Focus: Christ reveals His divinity by the works He does in us.

Function: Believe in the works Christ does in us so that we may be in both Him and the Father.

A. Why Do We Worship God?

• Many of us worship God because we love Him, 
• And He has done so many good things for us. 
• And so, we deem it necessary to give Him the honor, 
• Praise and Glory. We worship Him because,
• We do not want to lose Him. We are afraid of eternal,
• Separation and so we make sure we are in His good,
• Books so we can enter into the pearly gates. 
• And many of us worship God because we have been,
• Taught to do so. It has been drilled into us. 
• We cannot think of,
• Any other way to live. Our faith is everything to us and, 
• We live it out because it is all we know. 
• All of these points made here are good reasons to,
• Worship God. But at the same time, it is not,
• Enough.
•  The reason for that is because the question,
• Has more so to do with the,
• Subjective view as to why we worship God. 
• We have our reasons as to why we approach God. 
• But have we ever thought about it the other way,
• Around? The reason I worship God is not only, 
• Because I fear hell, or it was something I have known, 
• To do all my life. Rather it should be I worship God, 
• Because He loved me first. 
• We do not worship Christ as if we are the determining,
• Factor of His participation in our lives. 
• Rather we worship Christ because the Father has,
• Chosen us and loved us from the very beginning, 
• By promising to send His Son, Jesus Christ. 
• Christ is not a matter of choice even though He gives,
• Us the free will to choose Him or not. 
• Christ is the Truth, 
• Revealed and He presents to us the longings of the,
• The heart. Remember it is Saint Augustine who once,
• Said in his Confessions: Late have I loved you, beauty so old and so new: late have I loved you. And see, you were within and I was in the external world and sought you there, and in my unlovely state I plunged into those lovely created things which you made. You were with me, and I was not with you. The lovely things kept me far from you, though if they did not have their existence in you, they had no existence at all. You called and cried out loud and shattered my deafness. You were radiant and resplendent; you put to flight my blindness. You were fragrant, and I drew in my breath and now pant after you. I tasted you, and I feel but hunger and thirst for you. You touched me, and I am set on fire to attain the peace which is yours.
•  God chose us in His Son before the Incarnation. 
• We are the late comers to the party my friends. 
• The goodness we realize in our lives did not appear, 
• Once we recognized it, it has always been there. 
• Christ has revealed the truth to us ages ago. It is us,
• Who are like Phillip who do not realize His love for us. 
• Like Phillip, we do not realize how much the Father, 
• Loves us by giving us the joy of all man’s desires. 
• How splendid, how wonderful, how marvelous, 
• It is that the incarnate God is one of us. 
• All joys, all love, all unity, all peace and all solace, 
• Is one person Jesus Christ. 
• And such a reality answers the question as to why we,
• Worship God.
•  One, because He loved us so much that,
• He gave us His only Son not for His sake but for ours. 
• A great act of love no existing being can measure or,
• compete with. And two, in His only begotten Son is the,
• remedy, the solution and guide as to how we are called,
• To live on this planet to walk as beings who have the, 
• Divine dwelling in them.  

B. Do Not Fear, You Are Never Alone.

• There is a reason why Jesus reveals these divine,
• Revelations to His disciples especially during Last,
• Supper. It is the hour when He will glorify the Father, 
• But most importantly it is the increasing moment of,
• How the Father reveals His eternal presence. 
• All the works Jesus has done is proof that the Father, 
• Had always been walking in their midst, preaching,
• In their midst. The Father had worked miracles in their,
• Midst and now the Father was about to confect the,
• Eucharist in their midst in His Son
•  And later on reveal His Eternal Love,
• On Calvary in their midst. Where ever Christ was there,
• Was the Father. 
• If God had come down in the Fullness of,
• Who He was and still is, all who would have,
• Laid eyes on Him, 
• Would have died instantly of pure joy and glory, 
• He would have expelled from His being. 
• But rather He sent someone who is intricately,
• Connected to Him that when you see the Father, 
• You see His Son. And the Good News, 
• Is this, that He is the divine person who is also fully human, 
• A human in all things except sin. And in Jesus,
• He made the natural supernatural, He made the,
• Ordinary extraordinary, and he made the temporary,
• Packed with things eternal. And that is why He said, 
• Do not let your hearts be troubled. 
• That If you have faith,
• In the Father have Faith also in Him. Because whatever, 
• He does, so does the Father. That everything that He,
• Does the disciples will do too. 
• And even greater things than Him,
• Because in Jesus’ Humanity,
• He will ascend to the Father, 
• To Inaugurate humanity in the divinity,
• He has won for us. 
• God has always longed to give this to us. 
• When the Disciples did the work of Christ. 
• Not only did they, 
• Carry out His works, but just as God was present in,
• Christ, so will Christ be present in His disciples. And if, 
• Christ is present in His disciples, so is the Father. And 
• Whatever works that they do in Christ’s name will be,
• Even greater because the works of the Father has come,
• Fruition. 

C. The Driving Purpose for Worship!

• If we have not understood the reason why we worship,
• I’ll spell it out. We worship the Triune God because, 
• Just as Christ had the Father residing in Him, so He,
• Now resided in us. Jesus has chosen us and has
• Revealed His truth  to us. but there is more to it. 
• The truth must now reside in us; and how is this,
• Possible? By consuming God! The Eucharist my,
• Friends invites us to live in and through the life,
• Of Christ. That when people see us, they see the,
• Father and the Son and the works of the Spirit, 
• Flowing in us. We may not be the focus, 
• But we sure play a great part in the Good News. 
• That in the Eucharist Christ says take and eat, 
• And with every consumption, the natural becomes,
• Supernatural, ordinary becomes extraordinary and 
• Temporal, becomes eternal. 
• When we say Good Morning with,
• A smile there is God walking in that person’s midst, 
• When we guide people to the Truth there is God, 
• Walking in that person’s midst. When we consume, 
• The Eucharist there is God in your midst. 
• It’s the divine exchange my friends. 
• God became man that man might become God. 
• And within every soul there are many mansions,
• for all souls to abide and dwell in. 
• Because Heaven is not a place it is a person and,
• We consume every day so others may find him and,
• Abide in Him.
• And then we come to realize worship is not just an act of, 
• High reverence and respect. But a matter of sacrifice,
• Between God and man so that both creator and creature, 
• May be one in each other. That’s why we called the,
• Mass the Nuptial Feast of The Lamb.
• All that should be good enough for all our hearts! 

AMEN.